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Lawyer sues FG over Twitter ban | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has filed a suit against the Federal Government before the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS) community court in Abuja over Twitter ban.

The vocal lawyer is asking the court to declare that there is no law enacted by the defendant’s legislature, which authorised the ban through its agent, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.

Omirhobo is asking the court to award him N500m damages against the defendant for violating his right to free speech and N10m cost of filing the legal action, totaling N510million.

“A declaration that the applicant has the right to use VPN to access his Twitter account and cannot be arrested or criminally prosecuted by the defendant, its agents, servants or privies,” he prayed. “An order voiding and annulling the order of the defendant, through its agent, attorney general of the federation, directing the arrest and criminal prosecution of Nigerians, who used VPN to access their Twitter account, to enable the applicant access his Twitter account via VPN without any threat of arrest or prosecution.

 

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